MOORHEAD - Belly dancing often conjures up images of a scantily clad woman seductively shaking her hips for bunch of men. But the true performance art, known as Middle Eastern dance, is very pro-woman ...

The members of Tufts Middle Eastern Dance, a campus group dedicated to performing various folkloric and regional dance styles from the Middle East are performing their first fall show this evening.

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Since 1989, Cassandra Shore has been creating theatrical versions of Middle Eastern dance for the concert stage, almost always with a live orchestra consisting of male musicians. This weekend, however ...

During the World Stage concert at Perkins Center for the Arts in Moorestown, Meesha Tayoun, right, dancer for Joseph Tayoun and his Mid-East Ensemble, performs belly dancing to the audience on Tuesday ...

KALAMAZOO -- Belly dancing gets a bad rap. "People think of it as burlesque or worse,'' said Na'imah, a belly dancer from Grand Rapids who goes by her stage name. ``My mom is frightened of it.'' But ...

(WXYZ0 — We’re five days into National Arab American Heritage Month, which the White House this year officially recognized as the month of April. To celebrate ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - The Middle Eastern Dance Artists of Hawaii (MEDAH) invites the public to celebrate World Belly Dance Day at a Benefit Hafla, an Arabic term for party or gathering, today, ...

Several New York City parties offer spaces where anyone and everyone can let loose, come together and find comfort in Middle Eastern and North African music. By Sara Aridi Just before midnight on a ...

A New York Public Library exhibition features nearly two centuries of cultural, social and political artifacts on Middle Easterners and North Africans in the city. A New York Public Library exhibition ...